Adding Movies

Learn how to add movies to your graphics and save them as a .gif-file...

• Step 1 For this tutorial, you are gonna need a movie which is in the filetype .mov. No other filetype will work!
  Hop on to image-ready first and click File>Open and select your movie.
  The following screen will pop up and you must choose the second option and select a piece of the movie with SHIFT as explained;

  

• Step 2 Once you have your piece of movie, and making sure it ain't HUGE, select all layers and set the time to NO DELAY;

  

• Step 3 Export this piece to Photoshop, where we will put graphics around it. Mak sure you have the 1st frame in Image-Ready selected before you export it.
  When you're in Photoshop, go to Image>Canvas Size and select a size of your choice...

  

• Step 4 Build *something* around it, WHILE MAKING SURE YOU DON'T TOUCH THE LAYERS THAT CONTAIN THE ANIMATION!!!

  

• Step 5 And then finally, move over to Image-Ready and save the .gif